What famous places have disappointed you?

[mouldyhousemouldylife]

Or a landmark, artwork etc.

I guess mine is Plitvice Lakes in Croatia and Lake Bled in Slovenia. I've wanted to go for years as they both looked unbelievable and magical on photos, but going there just felt pretty ordinary. Very nice looking but I wasn't blown away.

Anyone else been to either? What did you think?

The Stonehenge ones make me laugh as we live close by, and have never understood why people trek so far to see something that is actually quite uninspiring and boring.

Taj Mahal.
Looks nice from the outside, completely bare and nothing on the inside.

The Sistine chapel - I was so shocked by some of it and how rubbish the painting was!

Florence was far too touristy....I'm aware of the hypocrisy given that I was a tourist.

Statue of Liberty and the Rockefeller Christmas tree during the day... don't let your first vision of it be in the day with no lights on lol.

New York (really, really dirty) and Japan (wet and a bit boring). DH says we need to go back to see if it gets better. Why?

Loved Niagra Falls and Venice though.

The pyramids in Egypt... But I had seen the Mexican ones before.much cleaner and better organised

Grand canyon.

Done a fly over in a charter plane. And you know what?
It's just a big chasm in the earth. Nothing spectacular.

Hoover dam was fantastic though.

niagra, sydney harbour, very underwhelming. Loved the pyramids.

Paris. Not a city of love...full of thieves and gangs who try and scam you out of money.

The Mermaid in Copenhagen. She's just a little statue on a rock. Was very underwhelmed.

Los Angeles especially the walk of fame. What a tacky dump.

Giants causeway - full of tourists, couldn't even take a decent photo, and basically just a pile of rocks

Agree about Hollywood. What a dump. Especially the area around the Chinese Theatre. Didn't hang about.

Also agree about Stonehenge-boring and not worth the bother.

Loved the Grand Canyon - but we flew into it by helicopter (three times) and stayed on the rim. But I agree about the Hoover Dam - amazing!

Yes, LA and Hollywood were a big disapppointment.

@mouldyhousemouldylife I love Lake Bled! Did you go on to Lake Bohinj to the west? It's evening more stunning.

I'm not a fan of Lake Baikal, it's underwhelming. Brussels is also a bit dull. I tried it again to see if it got better ten years later. It hadn't. No offence to the Belgians. Luxembourg is peculiar.

Notre Dame was much smaller than I expected.

The Mona Lisa was small and dark in a room crowded with people but we walked down a long, light gallery of equally old, brighter paintings to get to it.

The Venus de Milo is displayed with several other sculptures with bits missing and it made her feel less special somehow.

However, Paris generally I love because it just looks and feels so French. Maybe our expectations are too high because we can visit everywhere online.

The Great Wall of China

St Kevin's Stump.

Another vote for Paris - overpriced and underwhelming.

Bruges was OK but nothing great - Ghent was much better.

I like the weirdness of Luxembourg.

The pyramids were not what I was expecting. In what way Backwoodsgirl I'm genuinely interested

Stonehenge (not a patch on skara brae or Maishowe in Orkney)

Trevi fountain - meh

Paris, not anything like as glam as I expected

Bondi beach

@ginswinger no I didn't see that one actually!

I really liked Brussels, found it very quaint and pretty. I would have expected Luxembourg to be completely dull, maybe I'll add it to my list!